a cedefop research paper (number 27) authorship unknown
Summary
The potential of vocational education and training (VET), including workplace learning, to foster innovation has not yet been fully exploited. There is a need for improvements in synergies between policies for innovation, business development and learning in enterprises.
What are the links between work organisation, workplace learning, training and innovation?
How can workplaces be developed that are conducive to learning and innovation?
In Europe, are there any examples of policy initiatives and publicly funded programmes that combine innovation and skills development being applied in enterprises?
If so, how do they differ and how do they operate?
Which types of programmes are used to foster the innovative ability of enterprises?
This report looks at innovation and learning in enterprises and examines the role that VET and learning-conducive working environments play in fostering enterprises’ innovative capacity. It covers the EU-27 plus Norway and analyses the impacts of learning-intensive forms of work organisation and learning on innovation in enterprises. Furthermore, it provides an overview of programme portfolios in the various European countries and analyses the impacts of publicly funded innovation programmes on the innovative ability of organisations.
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Monday, 24 December 2012
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Work organization, performance and health: introduction
an article by Guido Citoni, (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy), Benoît Mahy, (University of Mons, Belgium) and François Rycx, (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and IZA, Germany) published in International Journal of Manpower Volume 33 Issue 3 (2012)
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue on work organization, performance and health.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors provide a general review of the literature and describe the main findings of the papers appearing in this special issue.
Findings
This issue provides new evidence regarding the impact of work organization (essentially defined in terms of payment methods, teamwork, workforce age structure and labour contracts) on performance (measured through employment, productivity and sickness absenteeism indicators). It also sheds more light on the determinants of workers’ health by gender, with particular attention to working conditions and mobbing.
Originality/value
The papers collected in this special issue provide some fine examples of recent work at the crossroads of health and personnel economics.
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue on work organization, performance and health.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors provide a general review of the literature and describe the main findings of the papers appearing in this special issue.
Findings
This issue provides new evidence regarding the impact of work organization (essentially defined in terms of payment methods, teamwork, workforce age structure and labour contracts) on performance (measured through employment, productivity and sickness absenteeism indicators). It also sheds more light on the determinants of workers’ health by gender, with particular attention to working conditions and mobbing.
Originality/value
The papers collected in this special issue provide some fine examples of recent work at the crossroads of health and personnel economics.
Friday, 18 May 2012
Work beyond employment: representations of informal economic activities
an article by Colin C Williams and Sara Nadin (University of Sheffield) published in Work Employment & Society Volume 26 Number 2 (April 2012)
Abstract
For much of the previous century, the informal sector was largely represented as a residue of a previous mode of production confined to marginal populations and gradually disappearing due to the inevitable and natural shift towards the formal economy across the globe.
Over the past quarter of a century, however, articles published in Work, Employment and Society have been at the forefront of re-reading the informal sector.
This article reveals how this body of literature has shown informal economic activities to be a persistent and ubiquitous feature of the economic landscape, mapped the complex and variable dynamics of formal and informal work in different populations, transcended simplistic universal structure/agency explanations for the persistence of informal work by developing context-bound understandings, and challenged the formal/informal dichotomy which represents the formal and informal sectors as separate hostile worlds.
The article concludes by highlighting some possible future directions for research on this topic.
Abstract
For much of the previous century, the informal sector was largely represented as a residue of a previous mode of production confined to marginal populations and gradually disappearing due to the inevitable and natural shift towards the formal economy across the globe.
Over the past quarter of a century, however, articles published in Work, Employment and Society have been at the forefront of re-reading the informal sector.
This article reveals how this body of literature has shown informal economic activities to be a persistent and ubiquitous feature of the economic landscape, mapped the complex and variable dynamics of formal and informal work in different populations, transcended simplistic universal structure/agency explanations for the persistence of informal work by developing context-bound understandings, and challenged the formal/informal dichotomy which represents the formal and informal sectors as separate hostile worlds.
The article concludes by highlighting some possible future directions for research on this topic.
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